AgdaPkt 2016-09-12 Closed and Joint SA PFA

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Physical and Historical Qualities of The District The proposed expanded historic district is an assemblage of some of Redwood City’s most prominent and significant commercial historic structures. Fifteen structures contribute. There are fourteen commercial properties and one meeting hall. The district includes portions of seven blocks, the 700, 800, 900 and 1100 blocks of Main Street, the 2000 block of Broadway, the 1200 block of Middlefield Road and the 100 block of Stambaugh Street. Four of the structures presently comprise a National Register Historic District. All four have been designated as individual local historic landmarks. The National Register Historic District and four additional structures have been certified as a National Register-eligible District. The expansion includes the portions of the 900 and 1100 blocks of Main Street, the 1200 block of Middlefield Road and the 100 block of Stambaugh Street. The expansion includes one property that has been previously designated as an individual historic landmark, known historically as the Foresters Hall at 1204 Middlefield Road. Two additional properties are nominated for individual landmark designation as part of this expansion proposal; they are known historically as Flynn’s Ford Agency & Garage at 935 Main Street and Dessin Bros. – Barnbauer Motors at 1101 Main Street. Dates of construction range from 1859 to 1931, with three of the fifteen structures built before the turn of the 19th century. Based on original primary usage, the proposed expanded district contains a pioneer general store (1859), a bank (1900), a drug store (1905), a building and loan association (1928), a hotel (1912), a theater (1895), two fraternal halls (1895 and 1913), two grocery stores (1910 and 1922), and three automobiledealerships (1920, 1922 and 1931). The district is representative of a typical “Main Street USA” 1920’s setting. It is comprised of one and two-part commercial block buildings with architectural styles such as Renaissance, Neo-classical, influences of Richardsonian Romanesque and Chicago School, Italianate and Gothic. Many prominent pioneer and early-day residents and organizations are associated with the buildings in the proposed expanded district such as merchants J. V. Diller and P. P. Chamberlain, attorney Edward F. Fitzpatrick, druggist Andrew Walsh, real estate man William Dusel, Judge George Buck, the Redwood Masonic Lodge, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Foresters of America, banker and auto dealer Frank K. Towne and auto dealer Ferris Miles. The boundaries of the proposed expanded district were chosen because this is a pioneer commercial area of contiguous, historically contributing commercial structures. There are eight non-contributing structures interspersed within its boundaries. The non-contributing structures do not significantly detract from the historical sense of time and place one feels while in the area. Page 1 A third property in the existing National Register-eligible District known historically as the Clifton Motor Co., The Chevrolet Agency, at 847-849 Main Street is also nominated for individual historic landmark designation. 7.B. - Page 12